The lives of millions of parents and children were turned upside down when COVID-19 forced school lockdowns in April 2020. With a new national lockdown announced for England on January 4 2021, many parents and schools have ...
Education
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While many research teams worldwide are trying to develop highly performing quantum computers, some are working on tools to control the flow of heat inside of them. Just like conventional computers, in fact, quantum computers ...
Climate change is proving a major risk to one of Canada's vital fish species according to new research published in Nature Climate Change.
Plants & Animals
Jan 12, 2021
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A huge lake in Bolivia has almost entirely disappeared. Lake Poopó used to be the country's second largest, after Lake Titicaca, and just a few decades ago in its wet season peak it would stretch almost 70km end to end and ...
Environment
Jan 12, 2021
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Optimized on-farm grain storage boosts food security in sub-Saharan Africa, as an ETH study in Kenya during the COVID-19 pandemic shows.
Other
Jan 12, 2021
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Almost one in five (19%) of parents of primary school pupils from families who are financially struggling reported that a lack of food made learning from home more difficult.
Social Sciences
Jan 12, 2021
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Shortly after NASA's Kepler mission began operations back in 2009, it identified what was thought to be a planet about the size of Neptune. Called KOI-5Ab, the planet, which was the second new planet candidate to be found ...
Astronomy
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Ultra-intense lasers with ultra-short pulses and ultra-high energies are powerful tools for exploring unknowns in physics, cosmology, material science, etc. With the help of chirped pulse amplification (CPA) (2018 Nobel Prize ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 12, 2021
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Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays are now very popular features of many mainstream products including smartphones and televisions. OLEDs have the advantages of being low cost, light, flexible, and easy to modify, ...
Materials Science
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A new fluorescence microscopy technique has produced the world's first nanoscale 3-D images of molecules in a whole, living cell, researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology reported.
Biotechnology
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